El transporte internacional como factor de competitividad en el comercio exteric.

Currently most of international shipments need to use more than one type of transportation from its point origin to final destination. Each one of the types of global transport has played an essential role in facilitating geographic diversification. In this paper we evaluate, through Principal Component Analysis methodolog the international transport competitiveness considering the most important variables that affect this sect and the economic performance of these variables on transportation, analyzing the structure of tt international transport system of twenty-nine countries, including seven Latin American countries. The results shown in the competitiveness index of international transportation indicate that the most competiti' countries in this field are: USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Sweden, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Denmark at Canada. Highlighting that, the countries of Latin America with the highest scores in this category are Braz followed by Panama, Chile and Costa Rica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]